Glossary

Definition Of Done

A single or a list of quantifiable and achievable milestone(s), which when fulfilled, mark the completion of an effort. The milestones need to be carefully curated such that no ends are left unbounded

Example: Consider a task to make yourself a cup of espresso. The definition of done can be listed as the following milestones

1. An aromatic, tasty and hot beverage made from the best espresso beans at hand using the best practices.
2. Clean station once beverage has been made

Epoch

The time when to do this task or effort. Is it something early ? Can it be postponed to a later stage ? Or is it something completely out of the scope of this timeline. For this document, I will use

• Step-1 as something that needs to be done before anything
• Early is something to be taken care of in the very early stages
• Later Something that can be done in parallel or maybe even postponed to a future stage of the project
• Post live Something to be taken care of in very later stages, stuff that can be postponed until e.g after MVP-1 is live or when some users are already using your product.

Scope

The size of the project. No matter what you are making, a university year end project or a large scale enterprise search engine, there is a certain size of this project. For the sake of simplicity, this document uses

• P (prototype, MVP-1 or version 0.1)
• S (small university activity, freelancer project, early stage startup)
• M (medium sized business, paying customers) and
• L (large enterprise, big client base, higher stakes)

to differentiate the different complexities based on level 1 t-shirt size.

Smoke testing

The term originates in hardware repair and has been applied to software. It's intended to be a quick test to see if the application "catches on fire" when run for the first time.